I often receive notes asking questions about dietary fats, like why is unsaturated fat healthier than saturated fat, and what is trans fat. Good questions, but to answer them I’ll have to first walk ...

I frequently get questions from readers about dietary fats as there is a lot of confusion surrounding why some fats are bad and some good, plus why fat can increase the cholesterol in your bloodstream ...

Trans fats are unsaturated fatty acids. When a person eats trans fats it raises their bad low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol levels. Trans fats also lower a person’s good high-density ...

The late 19th century was filled with well-intentioned food innovations — we'll just leave it at that. While this was a time when food preservation processes like canning and pasteurizing were ...

With a growing number of chains electing to change their frying oils to jettison trans fats, the impression among health-conscious consumers might be that heart-threatening dietary risks are becoming ...

Trans fat is the unhealthiest fat because it lowers your good cholesterol and boosts bad cholesterol. If a food has less than 0.5 grams of trans fat, manufacturers can list it as 0 g on nutrition ...

The previous article described how fatty acids consist of long chains of carbon-carbon bonds, with the carbon mostly “saturated” with hydrogen atoms. When two saturated adjacent carbon atoms exchange ...

Most of the trans fats in our diet are derived from man-made partially hydrogenated vegetable oil (trans fats also occur naturally in beef, lamb, and dairy products). In recent years, trans fats have ...

Fresh research suggesting a potential link between industrially produced trans-fatty acids – predominantly found in fried foods and partially hydrogenated cooking oils – and ovarian cancer has ...

Medically reviewed by Maggie Moon, MS, RD Fat is an essential nutrient for your health, but some are better for you than ...